Tinubu Vows To Hunt Down Enemies Of the State As Nigeria Remembers Late Governor Audu
In a moment heavy with memory and national tension, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has issued one of his strongest signals that his administration is prepared to confront Nigeria’s security crisis head-on.
Speaking through the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, at a memorial for the late Kogi State Governor, Prince Abubakar Audu, the President warned that those threatening the peace of the nation “will be hunted wherever they may be.”
The setting in Lokoja was solemn, but the message was fierce.
Amid rising security setbacks that have shaken public confidence, Tinubu acknowledged the nation’s anxieties, but vowed that the recently declared State of Emergency on national security is “not symbolic rhetoric” but a full-scale mobilisation of manpower, modern intelligence tools, and strategic reforms.
At the heart of these reforms is the long-debated introduction of State Police, a move the President described as “a bold, necessary constitutional step” to strengthen grassroots policing and better respond to local threats.
But beyond the politics and policy, the day belonged to the memory of Prince Abubakar Audu, a pioneer governor whose leadership carved Kogi’s political identity and helped shape Nigeria’s democratic transition.
Tinubu described him as “a pathfinder, a giant woven into the fabric of our democratic journey,” painting a picture of a man whose legacy still breathes through the state he helped build.
The President also tied Audu’s legacy of development to his administration’s ongoing work, modernising livestock farming to end decades of farmer-herder conflict, expanding national infrastructure, and strengthening social investment programmes to cushion vulnerable Nigerians.
Audu’s story, he said, is a reminder of what bold leadership can achieve, and proof that Nigeria’s democracy, though tested, remains anchored by those who built before and those determined to protect it now.
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